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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title pro- cedure, provided that the Selectmen, or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will adopt as a By-Law the building code recommended by the committee appointed to prepare a set of building laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to have a Fourth of July celebration, appoint a committee, and appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will except Lincoln Fields
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Road as a public way from Lincoln Road to the end of said road and to extend the water main therein from a point about three hundred feet from Lincoln Road, where a Y has been left for this purpose, approximately one thousand feet in Lincoln Fields Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will take any action toward naming its unnamed streets.
Article 19. To see if the Town will change the present zoning ordinance or By-Law as it now stands (i.e., the Zone Map of Town of Lincoln, Mass., dated March 4, 1929), so that upon land adjacent to and running along the new Super Highway from a point located at the junction of said Super Highway and the Lexington Line and running west to a point located at the western boundary of and including that land now owned by Mannerino, on the northwest side of said Super Highway, and to a distance back from the highway of three hundred and fifty feet, business structures may be erected thereon, for the purposes of carrying on various businesses, or take any other action on the question.
HEREOF FAIL NOT
And make due return of this WARRANT with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 19th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.
SUMNER SMITH, HERBERT G. FARRAR, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, JR., Selectmen of Lincoln.
On the reverse is the following :
Lincoln, February 22, 1936.
I have served this Warrant by posting an attested copy in each of the Post Offices and one at the Railroad Station, seven days before date of said meeting.
(Signed) JOHN J. KELLIHER, Constable.
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In accordance with the above Warrant the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, at 7.40 o'clock P.M. The Warrant was read by the Town Clerk. All non-voters were asked by the Moderator to leave the balcony, to accommodate 50 or more voters standing in the rear of the Hall.
Article 2. Charles E. Woodhull and Hermon T. Wheeler were elected Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Article 3. Voted: That the reports as printed in the Town Report, with the exception of the Zoning By-Law Com- mittee, the Building Laws Committee, and the Nursing Com- mittee be accepted.
Article 4. Voted: That all of the items on page 33 of the Town Report, with the exception of Highways and Bridges, Miscellaneous, and Library, be appropriated. A motion to increase the Highways and Bridges appropriation $600.00 was lost. A motion that the Selectmen explain what the amount of $2,500.00 Miscellaneous is to be used for, and itemized in next year's Town Report, was lost.
Voted: That the Library and Dog Tax amount be $979.34.
Voted: That the Appropriation for Miscellaneous be $2,500.00.
Voted: That the appropriations be, for
Board of Health
$2,500.00
Cemeteries
600.00
Election Expenses
200.00
Fire Department
1,956.00
Highways and Bridges
16,500.00
Highways (Chapter 90)
2,500.00
Insurance
782.24
Interest on Town Loans
300.00
Library and Dog Tax
979.34
Miscellaneous
2,500.00
Police
2,000.00
Public Welfare
6,000.00
Reserve Fund
800.00
Schools
38,200.00
Street Lights
3,300.00
Town Hall and Public Grounds
2,000.00
Town Officers' Salaries
3,800.00
Tree and Moth Work
1,850.00
Veterans' Aid
120.00
Vocational Education
1,510.00
Water Works
10,000.00
$98,497.58
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Voted : That the Water Works appropriation be taken from the Water Works Treasury, and the Cemeteries appropria- tion be taken from the Cemetery Fund.
Article 5. Voted: That the taxes be collected in the same manner as last year.
Article 6. Voted: That the compensation of the Collec- tor of Taxes be $1,000.00.
Article 7. Voted: That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1st, 1936, and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 8. Voted: That the sum of $524.83 this being the Town's share of the net cost of care, maintenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, including interest on temporary notes issued therefor be and the said sum is hereby appropriated.
Article 9. A motion to admit a salesman for a five-minute talk on fire trucks was lost.
An amendment, that the amount be $2,200.00 was lost. An amendment, that the word "Forest" be stricken out of the following motion was carried.
Voted: That the Town purchase a Fire Truck, and that a committee consisting of the Selectmen, and the Fire Engineers be appointed to purchase the same and that the sum of $3,250.00 be appropriated for this purpose or as much thereof as may be needed.
On the question of re-voting the result was "No."
Article 10. Voted: That the Town adopt the following By-Law.
Section 1. No dog shall be permitted to run at large in the Town of Lincoln unless said dog shall have been vac- cinated against rabies during the preceding 12 months.
Sect. 2. The owner or keeper of a dog that violates the provisions of the preceding section shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $10.00 for each offence.
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Sec. 3. The dog license fee as required under Section 139, Chapter 140 of the General Laws shall be increased by fifty cents (50c), said increase shall be appropriated annually for the conducting of a clinic for the inoculation of dogs against rabies under the direction of the Board of Health.
Article 11. Voted: That fifty cents (50c) out of each dog license fee received by the Town, be and hereby is appro- priated for the conducting of a clinic for the inoculation of dogs against rabies, under the direction of the Board of Health.
Article 12. Voted: To divide the recommendations and take up separately.
Voted: unanimously that Section 2 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: (o) Line of way or street line: The Line of the taking or lay-out where a taking has been made or a lay-out has been approved by the Board of Survey; where no taking has been made then a line parallel with and twenty (20) feet on either side of the center line of the travelled way.
Voted: unanimously that Section 3, Paragraph (a) of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by striking out the figure "27" in the first line and substituting therefor the figure "29," and by adding after the words "General Laws" the words "as amended."
Voted : unanimously that Section 3 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by substituting the fol- lowing new paragraph: (b) a Board of Appeals is hereby established in accordance with Section 30 of Chapter 40 of the General .Laws as amended and shall consist of five mem- bers. All members of the Board of Appeals shall be citizens of Lincoln, and shall serve: one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years, and thereafter one member shall be chosen annually for a term of five years, to succeed the member whose term has expired. The Board of Appeals shall be selected and appointed by the Board of Selectmen according to the General Laws.
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Voted unanimously that Section 12 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by striking out the figures ten thousand (10,000) square feet and inserting in place thereof the figures 40,000 square feet, and by adding after the last word of the section, "fulfilled," the following: "And provided that the Board of Appeals may authorize a variance in accordance with the provisions of Section 30 of the Gen- eral Laws, as amended where a literal enforcement of the provisions of the By-Laws would involve substantial hard- ship to the appellant and where desirable relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantial derogation from the intent or purpose of such ordinance or by-law, provided, however, that the Board of Appeals shall not authorize hereunder the erection of a one-family house, on any lot of less than 20,000 square feet."
Voted by a vote of Yes 220, No 26, that Section 14, para- graph (a) of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln, be amended by striking out the words in the first and second line "neighborhood store districts" and by substituting there- for the words "business districts," and that Section 14 para- graph (a) be further amended by striking out in line 3 the figure "25" and substituting therefor the figure "40."
Voted unanimously that Section 15 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: (e) in the event that any non-conforming building or structure existing at the time of passage of the zoning by-laws is destroyed or damaged it may be reconstructed and used as before said destruction or damage, provided, that the re-construction is commenced within one year from the date of destruction or damage, and the building or structure completed and the use resumed within a reasonable time thereafter. Nothing in this by-law shall be construed to permit the re-construction or resump- tion of use of a building or structure destroyed or damaged, except substantially as existed prior to said destruction or damage, and except in compliance with any existing building laws.
Voted unanimously that Section 15 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: (f) in residence dis- tricts the removal for sale of sod, loam, clay, sand, gravel, or
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quarried stone, except when incidental to, and in connection with the construction of a building for which a permit has been issued or except where it is to be used within the limits of the Town, shall be deemed a non-conforming use of land, and shall be permitted only if written permission of the Board of Appeals be obtained, in accordance with the provisions of Section 21 (a), and under such conditions as the Board of Appeals may impose and make a part of the permit. The Board of Appeals shall, in each instance impose such condi- tions as will protect the neighborhood and the Town against permanent and temporary hazards because of conditions which may be left after operations are completed, or because of the methods of handling such material at the site, or of transporting such material through the Town.
Voted unanimously that Section 20 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by striking out in the fourth line the words "Section 27, and 27 (a)" and substi- tuting therefor the following, "Section 30 and 30 (a)."
Voted unanimously that Section 21 (d) of the Zoning By- Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by striking out in the first line the words "Section 27 (a)" and substituting therefor the words "Section 30."
Voted unanimously that Section 22 of the Zoning By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln be amended by striking out said Section and substituting the following Section 22: Section 22 the planning board or until one is established the Board of Selectmen upon its own initiative may, and upon petition of ten citizens shall, hold public hearings, public notice of which shall be given, for the consideration of any amend- ments to the zoning map or to this by-law, and report to a Town Meeting its recommendations as to what action shall be taken. No hearing shall be held or appeals considered for any variation or change of district boundaries except as pro- vided in Section 27 Chapter 40 of the General Laws, and amendments thereof, and in addition thereto and in this section.
Voted : to lay on the table the following :
Section 21 (e) Permit the erection and use of not more than two additional gasoline filling stations on the Cambridge Turnpike, under such reasonable rules and regulations, as
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they may impose and subject to the issuance of a permit for the sale and storage of gasoline by the Selectmen, having due regard to the needs and safety of the travelling public, and the character and proximity of adjoining structures and the general welfare of the inhabitants provided that no such vari- ance shall be allowed by the Board of Appeals and no permit for the erection of any buildings or structures shall be issued by the inspector of buildings unless and until the plans and specifications for the same are filed with and assented to by the Board of Appeals as to architectural design, having in mind the general character of the Town, also:
Zoning Map
Change Zoning Map by adding a business section on the southwesterly side of the North Great Road extending south- easterly from its intersection with the Concord Town line, to a point opposite where the Concord Town line turns approximately north at right angles to the North Great Road.
Board of Appeals
Harland B. Newton, Chairman Fritz Cunnert
George G. Tarbell Anthony J. Doherty
James DeNormandie
At this point it was Voted : To take up Article 19.
Article 19. Voted : To lay on the table.
Article 13. Voted : To postpone indefinitely.
Article 14. Voted: That the Town authorize the Select- men or Collector to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale. By posting such notice of sale in some con- venient and public place in the Town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, the Selectmen or collector being given full authority to reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
Article 15. Voted: To recommit the recommendations to the Committee to report at next Town Meeting. Yes 133, No 43.
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Article 16. Voted: That the Town of Lincoln celebrate the Fourth of July next. That the Moderator appoint a Com- mittee of five for same within thirty days of the adjourn- ment of this meeting, and that the sum of $150.00 be appro- priated therefor. Under this Article the Moderator appointed the following :
William H. Davis James Lahey Harold S. Dean Sumner Smith
Mathew H. Doherty
Article 17. No action taken.
Article 18. No action taken.
Voted: To adjourn at 12 midnight.
WILLIAM H. DAVIS, Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL TOWN ELECTION March 7, 1936
Under Article 1 of the Warrant, the Annual Town Election was held in the Town Hall on Saturday March 7th, 1936. The ballot box was inspected and the following ballot clerks were duly sworn, Eva Langille, Ruth Rice, Raymond E. Hagerty, D. Everett Sherman, Jr., Lorrin W. Ferdinand, James V. Lennon, John J. Morrissey, Charles Lennon. At 12 o'clock noon the polls were declared open by the Modera- tor. At 12.55 P.M., the Moderator and Town Clerk ordered that the ballot box be opened and the ballots taken there- from for counting. At 6.55 P.M., it was voted: That the polls be kept open until 7.30 P.M., at 7.25 P.M. it was Voted: to close the Polls at 7.30 P.M., at which time they were declared closed by the Moderator. Ballot box reading 664.
The following were declared elected :
Moderator, John Todd Town Clerk, William H. Davis Selectman, Herbert G. Farrar Assessor, Herbert G. Farrar
Treasurer, Warwick V. Harris
Collector of Taxes, William H. Davis Auditor, James W. Lennon
Constables, John J. Kelliher
George E. Cunningham
School Committee, Gladys deY. Herman
Water Commissioner, Sidney G. MacRae Board of Health, Robert L. DeNormandie Tree Warden, John J. Kelliher
Commissioner of Trust Funds, Conrad P. Hatheway Trustee of Bemis Fund, Edward F. Flint Cemetery Commissioner, Alfred C. Coughlan
A true copy attest :
WILLIAM H. DAVIS, Town Clerk.
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PARTY PRIMARY Tuesday, April 28th, 1936
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln :
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, Tuesday the twenty-eighth day of April, 1936, at four o'clock, P.M., for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Elec- tion of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices :
8 Delegates-at-large to the National Convention of the Democratic party.
8 Alternate Delegates at large to the National Conven- tion of the Democratic Party.
4 Delegates-at-large to the National Convention of the Republican Party.
4 Alternate Delegates-at-large to the National Conven- tion of the Republican Party.
2 District Delegates to the National Convention of the Democratic Party, 9th Congressional District.
2 Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention of the Democratic Party, 9th Congressional District.
2 District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 9th Congressional District.
1 District Delegate to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 11th Congressional District.
2 Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 9th Congressional District.
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1 Alternate District Delegate to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 11th Congressional District.
Presidential Preference.
Preference for Democratic Candidate for President of the United States.
Preference for Republican Candidate for President of the United States.
District member of State Committee for each political party for the 5th Middlesex Senatorial District.
10 Members of the Democratic Town Committee.
25 Members of the Republican Town Committee.
1 Delegate to State Convention of the Democratic Party.
1 Delegate to State Convention of the Republican Party.
All of the above candidates are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from Four O'clock P.M., to Seven O'clock P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before time of said meeting as directed by vote of the Town. Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this first day of April A.D., 1936.
SUMNER SMITH, HERBERT G. FARRAR, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, JR., Selectmen of Lincoln.
On the reverse of the Warrant is the following :
Lincoln, April 14, 1936.
I have served this Warrant by posting an attested copy in each of the Post Offices, and one at the Railroad Station seven days before date of said meeting.
JOHN J. KELLIHER, Constable.
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In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing Warrant the Party Primary was held in the Town Hall, April 28th, 1936. The Warrant was read by the Town Clerk, the Ballot box was inspected, and Polls declared open at 4 o'clock P.M., by Herbert G. Farrar. The following ballot clerks were duly sworn : Lorrin W. Ferdinand, Raymond E. Hagerty, James V. Lennon, D. Everett Sherman, Jr. The polls were de- clared closed at 7 o'clock P.M., by Robert D. Donaldson, Jr. Total votes cast, 146, Republican 128, Democratic 18, the result was announced as follows:
Republican Delegates-at-Large to National Conven- tion -
Charles F. Adams
received 106 votes
George F. Booth
66
94
Joseph W. Martin
66
94
Allen T. Treadway Blanks
125
Alternate Delegates-at-Large to National Convention ---
Mary Phillips Bailey
received 85 votes
Florence H. Lefevre
85
Wallace Stearns
66
87
Anna C. M. Tillinghast Blanks 165
District Delegates to National Convention -
Cecil E. Fraser
received 93 votes
Maynard Hutchinson
95
Not Grouped -
C. Ernest Curtis
3
Colin J. Macleod
66
3
Elizabeth A. Perkins
5
Blanks
441
Alternate District Delegates to National Convention -
Sybil H. Holmes Ella M. Vaughan Blanks
received 99 votes 66 97
60
90 66
93
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Presidential Preference -
Landon Borah
7
Knox
5
Hoover
6
6
3
57
State Committee -
Madge N. Ray Scattering Blanks
received 88 votes 1
39
Delegate to State Convention -
Sumner Smith George A. Clark Lorrin W. Ferdinand Blanks
received 96 votes
25 66
66
1
66
6
Town Committee -
Susan L. Briggs
received 86 votes
Fritz Cunnert
82
89
William H. Davis James DeNormandie
81
Robert D. Donaldson, Jr.
85
Lorrin W. Ferdinand
78
Elizabeth G. Harris
74
Gladys de Y. Herman
85
Elizabeth F. Howard
84
Alma M. Langille
80
Waldo V. Langille
66
79
Walter E. Lovejoy Donald H. MacAskill
75
W. Richard Murray
76
Harland B. Newton
66
84
William N. Page
78
77
Vandenberg Scattering Blanks
received 44 votes
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received 72 votes
Charles O. Preble Lucy K. Rand
85
Catherine E. Shea
72
Daniel E. Sherman, Jr.
79 66
Sumner Smith
88 6
Edward M. Stone
86
66
George G. Tarbell
88
George G. Tenney
81
John Todd Scattering
226
Democratic Delegates-at-Large to National Conven- tion -
David I. Walsh
received 13 votes
Marcus A. Coolidge
13 66
James M. Curley
William Granfield
11
Joseph McGrath
11 66
Margaret M. O'Riordan
11
Elizabeth McNamara
66
11
Grace Hartley Howe
66
11
Not Grouped -
Timothy E. Carrol
received
1 vote
Alexander F. Sullivan
2
66
Blanks 48
Alternate Delegates-at-Large to National Convention
Clementina Langone
received 13 votes
Mary Maliotis
11
Golda R. Waters
12
Sadie H. Mulrone
13
Louise B. Clark
12
H. Oscar Rocheleau
13
Stanley W. Wisnioski
11
Julian D. Rainey Blanks
13
16
46
.
91
12
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District Delegates to National Convention -
James Roosevelt Alice E. Gallagher Not Grouped -- James P. Carroll Michael DeLuca Daniel J. Doherty Hyman Pill Blanks
received 9 votes
10
received
2 votes
0
3
2
10
Alternate District Delegates to National Convention - John C. Collins received 13 votes William J. Coughlan 13 Blanks 10
Presidential Preference - F. D. Roosevelt Carter Glass 1 Alfred E. Smith 1 Blanks 10
received 6 votes
State Committee - Charles Colligan received Thomas T. Jones Francis Norton 11 Blanks 4
1 votes
2
Delegate to State Convention - Anthony J. Doherty Manley Boyce Blanks
received 7 votes 10 1
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Town Committee -
Mary M. Boyce
received 15 votes
Andrew J. Dougherty, Jr.
15
66
Mary A. Ryan
15
66
Alice M. Boyce
13
Alice Connors
13
John Gilbert
66
10
John Adams
10
William Costello
.. .
10
Ronald Wood
10
Manley Boyce
10
Timothy J. A'Hearn
4
Martin Corrigan
4
Thomas J. Dee
4
Anthony J. Doherty
4
Raymond E. Hagerty
4
Mildred Horne
1
Attest :
WILLIAM H. DAVIS,
Town Clerk.
66
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PROCEEDINGS AT STATE PRIMARIES September 15, 1936
WARRANT
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln:
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, Lincoln, on Tuesday the fifteenth day of September, 1936, at Twleve o'clock Noon, for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the follow- ing offices :
Governor, for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant-Governor, for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, for this Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General, for this Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth, for this Commonwealth.
Attorney General, for this Commonwealth.
Senator in Congress, for this Commonwealth.
Representative in Congress, 9th Congressional District.
Councillor, 3rd Councillor District.
Senator, 5th Senatorial District.
Representative in General Court, 13th Middlesex District.
Register of Probate and Insolvency, Middlesex County.
County Commissioners (2), Middlesex County.
County Treasurer, Middlesex County.
A Clerk of Courts (to fill vacancy), Middlesex County.
The Polls will be open from Twelve Noon to Seven o'clock P.M. Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with
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your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this 3rd day of September A.D., 1936. HERBERT G. FARRAR, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, JR., Selectmen of Lincoln.
On the reverse of the Warrant is the following :
I have served this Warrant by posting an attested copy in each of the Post Offices, and one at the Railroad Station, seven days before date of said meeting.
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